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than the breast, with hoary whitish edgings to the feathers ; quills 

 dusky brown below, edged with dull whitish along the inner webs. 

 Total length 4-9 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-45, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-6. 

 Hub. Western Africa, Gold Coast to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon {Du Chaillit). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Mr. Du Chaillu [C.]. 



c. Jan. sk. Ashantee. J. Gould, Esq. 

 d,i\ Ad. sk. Fantee (Gnvenior Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 /". Juu. sk. Fantee (Aubinn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 'g. Ad. sk. Enimill, Wassaw, March 1872 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{H. F. Blissett). 



4. Alseonax epulata. 



Butalis epulata, Cass. Pr. F/uhtd. Acad. 1850, p. 32G, et 1857, p. 35. 

 Muscicapa epulata, Ilartl. Orn. W.-Afr. pp. 96, 276; Cass. Pr. 



Phihtd. Acad. 1859, p. 51 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 169 ; Grmj, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 322, no. 4823, 



Adult. General colour above dark bluish slate-colour, the head 

 scarcely darker than the back ; quills dark brown, the coverts ob- 

 scurely edged with slate-colour, with which colour the inner secon- 

 daries are washed ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged obscurely with 

 grey near the base of the outer web and with lighter brown along 

 the inner one ; sides of face dark slate-colour like the head, with a 

 slight whitish mottling near the base of the upper mandible; in 

 front of the eye a blackish shade ; sides of throat, breast, and sides 

 of body dull bluish slate-colour, the throat and centre of the body 

 white, as also the under tail-coverts, the latter with greyish bases ; 

 edge of wing dark brown, the feathers edged with slaty ; axillaries 

 white with dusky bases ; quills dark brown below, edged with lighter 

 brown along the inner web. Total length 3-6 inches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 2-15, tail 1'5, tarsus 0'45. 



Hah. Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Mr. Du Chaillu [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Gaboon {F)u Chaillu). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



5. Alseonax fantisiensis. 



Butalis epulata {nee Cass.), Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 489; id. Cat. Afr. 

 B. p. 42 ; id. Ann. ^- May. Nat. Hist. 1871, viii. p. 234. 



Adult. Similar to A. ejndata, but with a longer wing, though nar- 

 rower bill ; legs dark brown, instead of yellowish ; colour of upper 

 surface dark ashy grey, with dark-brown centres to the feathers of 

 the head, producing a mottled appearance ; the colour of the upper 

 surface and of the sides of the body is more of a cindery-grey than a 

 dark-bluish grey as in B. epulata. Total length 4 inches, ciilmen 

 0-4, wing 2-2, tail 1-0, tarsus 0-45. 



Young. Above dusky grey, covered with little spots of buff, deeper 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts, all these spots being margined 



